{"id":228795,"date":"2025-09-15T13:20:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T13:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/228795\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T13:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T13:20:15","slug":"3-of-the-best-forgotten-classic-rock-songs-of-the-80s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/228795\/","title":{"rendered":"3 of the Best Forgotten Classic Rock Songs of the 80s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Classic rock hit its peak in the 80s, with bands including The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, and Led Zeppelin delighting fans with iconic tunes.<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/3-classic-rock-songs-from-the-80s-that-define-the-genre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">so much music<\/a> to choose from, it\u2019d be impossible to include every great song on every single playlist. As such, exceptional songs often fall by the wayside, as is the case with the three tracks below.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll About You\u201d by The Rolling Stones (1980)<\/p>\n<p>The emotional ballad, \u201cAll About You\u201d, closes out The Rolling Stones\u2019 80s classic rock album Emotional Rescue. The track, which Keith Richards sings, is thought by many fans to be about the guitarist\u2019s feud with his bandmate, Mick Jagger.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a 2019 interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheatsheet.com\/news\/keith-richards-clarified-the-rolling-stones-all-about-you-about.html\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MOJO<\/a>, Richards said he didn\u2019t intend the song to have that meaning, though those feelings could have slipped in subconsciously, given the state of his and Jagger\u2019s friendship at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a song of love, discarded love. I never really thought about it in terms of how it was going to be interpreted,\u201d Richards said. \u201cI\u2019m just writing another film noir love song. I know that when I was singing \u2018All About You\u2019, I was certainly not thinking about Mick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut relationships in the band being the way they were at the time, these feelings are transferable,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd once it was pointed out to me, I said, \u2018Yeah! Maybe I do mean that!\u2019 We are not in control of our unconscious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cF.I.N.E\u201d by Aerosmith (1989)<\/p>\n<p>Written by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry for Aerosmith\u2019s late 80s classic rock album Pump, \u201cF.I.N.E.\u201d is a hidden gem in the band\u2019s catalogue. With a title that stands for F**ked Up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Emotional, it\u2019s no surprise the song is a fan favorite.<\/p>\n<p>Perry once told <a href=\"https:\/\/baltimorepositive.com\/joe-perry-of-aerosmith-talks-about-sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll-on-pump-tour-in-july-1990\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Baltimore Positive<\/a> that the song \u201cbasically started on this guitar that I have that has a kind of weird tuning.\u201d For the lyrics, he took some \u201cstream of consciousness stuff\u201d and combined it with a chorus that was borne out of a writing session with Desmond Child.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe didn\u2019t even know we used it until we called him up,\u201d Perry said of Child. \u201c[We] said, \u2018Hey, by the way, Desmond, you know that chorus we had for blah, blah, blah? Well, now it\u2019s the chorus for \u2018F.I.N.E.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWearing and Tearing\u201d by Led Zeppelin (1982)<\/p>\n<p>The final track on Led Zeppelin\u2019s 1982 album Coda, \u201cWearing and Tearing\u201d, is a standout song. They wrote and recorded the song years before. However, it was left off their 1978 album, In Through the Out Door.<\/p>\n<p>As for why the song didn\u2019t make the cut for its first intended album, Jimmy Page told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/jimmy-page-final-led-zeppelin-albums\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Classic Rock<\/a> that \u201cthe album was so much lighter, it wouldn\u2019t have fit.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Wearing And Tearing\u2019\u00a0was \u2018One, two, three, four, charge.\u2019 My goodness! It was like an assault,\u201d he added. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t in character with something like\u00a0\u2018All My Love\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Goedefroit Music\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Classic rock hit its peak in the 80s, with bands including The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, and Led Zeppelin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":228796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[976,171,975,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-228795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-classic-rock","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115208521460034625","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}